05 Works, Today, April 20th, is St. Agnes of Montepulciano’s day, With Footnotes – #106

Agnes of Montepulciano, O.P. (1268–1317), was a Dominican prioress in medieval Tuscany, who was known as a miracle worker during her lifetime. She is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.

Agnes was born in 1268 into the noble Segni family in Gracciano, a frazione of Montepulciano, then part of the Papal States. At the age of nine, she convinced her parents to allow her to enter a Franciscan monastery of women They lived a simple, contemplative life. She received the permission of the Pope to be accepted into this life at such a young age, which was normally against Church law…

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